OWD.2 TAG Expression

Themes: Feedstock Production

Keywords: Biomass Analytics

Citation

Zhai, Z., Liu, H., Shanklin, J. March 9, 2021. “Ectopic Expression of OLEOSIN 1 and Inactivation of GBSS1 Have a Synergistic Effect on Oil Accumulation in Plant Leaves.” Plants. DOI: 10.3390/plants10030513.

Overview

Representative phenotype of constitutive or inducible OWD transgenic plants. Two representative 8-week-old soil grown transgenic lines for constitutive (OWD) or inducible expression (OWD.2) of OWD in WT or OG background were shown.

During the transformation of wild-type (WT) Arabidopsis thaliana, a T-DNA containing OLEOSIN-GFP (OLE1-GFP) was inserted by happenstance within the GBSS1 gene, resulting in significant reduction in amylose and increase in leaf oil content in the transgenic line (OG). The synergistic effect on oil accumulation of combining gbss1 with the expression of OLE1-GFP was confirmed by transforming an independent gbss1 mutant (GABI_914G01) with OLE1-GFP. The resulting OLE1-GFP/gbss1 transgenic lines showed higher leaf oil content than the individual OLE1-GFP/WT or single gbss1 mutant lines. Further stacking of the lipogenic factors WRINKLED1, Diacylglycerol O-Acyltransferase (DGAT1), and Cys-OLEOSIN1 (an engineered sesame OLEOSIN1) in OG significantly elevated its oil content in mature leaves to 2.3% of dry weight, which is 15 times higher than that in WT Arabidopsis. Inducible expression of the same lipogenic factors was shown to be an effective strategy for triacylglycerol (TAG) accumulation without incurring growth, development, and yield penalties.

Data

TAG Content in OWD.2 Plants (0.5 KB)

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